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Mean As Hell
Dee Harkey
Gene Roberts
其他書名
The Life of a New Mexico Lawman
出版
Pickle Partners Publishing
, 2018-12-02
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN
1789127785
9781789127782
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ItemDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
New Mexico rancher and lawman Dee (Daniel R.) Harkey describes himself as having “been shot at more times than any man in the world not engaged in war.” Mean as Hell, originally published in 1948 when Harkey was 83, is his detailed, witty autobiography about his youth in San Saba County of west Texas, where in 1882 he learned from his brother Joe, the sheriff, to “be damned sure you don’t get killed, but don’t kill anybody unless you have to” and his adult life in Eddy County after moving to Karlsbad (then Eddy) in 1890.
Harkey served as a New Mexico peace officer from 1893 until 1911. Among the many cattle rustlers, train robbers, and other outlaws he confronted were Jim Miller, whom Harkey fingers as Pat Garrett’s real killer, and the Dalton Gang. Harkey observes that, in 1948, “cattle stealing has gone out of fashion. We’ve gotten civilized. Instead..., we now have statesman who practice nepotism, pad the public payrolls and graft as much as they think they can get away with (in an honorable way, of course) just like the folks back east.”
Readers interested in many aspects of the territorial and outlaw West will enjoy Dee Harkey’s lively stories.